It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.
There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life and the cross-defined life than that of the Tower of Babel.
When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive.
The whole world is determined by trade - which is really the blood of the world. The driving force is everyone's desire to have a better life. How? By consuming. For countries, the 'Holy Grail' is economic growth.
My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.
I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again.
I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through.
I love my mother so much, because I see the whole of her.
I love fall because I love the whole cuddling aspect of it, and a sweater dress has that vibe of I'm going to hunker down and be warm, but it's also very feminine.
My favorite football team is the Bears because my favorite player is on there, Devin Hester. I love the whole team, though. But that's just my favorite player.
As a quarterback, you have to love it. As much as you like to turn around and hand the ball off - the whole traditional football game - as a quarterback, you gotta love putting it in the air.
Does it matter if the whole world is standing against you, if God is already on your side, guiding and protecting you?
Jean's whole job is to protect Victoria. Jean is a very practical, very orderly, very disciplined person; she is the personality called the gatekeeper.
I don't wanna be known as just a hip-hop artist. I wanna take it to a whole 'nother level.
When I'm out there on the field, I'm in a whole different world, you know? It's like, I'm just having so much fun.
It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.
If I win, I'll take my wife and buy her a whole new wardrobe. If she's happy then I'll be happy.
I grew up in a neighborhood with blacks and Puerto Ricans and Italians, the whole gamut, so conveying unity has always meant a lot to me.
Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...
When you hear the first five seconds to a song and you've pretty much heard the whole song, that's kind of a bummer.
The worst piece of advice I've gotten in my whole career is from somebody who said, 'Remember, it's all about likeability.'